[GreenKeys] and now, for something completely off-topic

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Robert House" <k9tty at dls.net>
To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: "tony.podrasky" <tony.podrasky at gmail.com>; 
<greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] and now, for something completely 
off-topic


>> METHINKS I SHOULD WORK FOR RICHARD!!!
>
> Don K9TTY
>
>
>   Not nearly enough.  The minimum rate must be about five 
> times
> whatever the equivalent hourly salary is and in any case 
> no less than
> a decent lawyer gets per hour, say about $300 to $500.  It 
> should be
> calculated to include travel time (portal to portal) and 
> should have a
> reasonable minimum call, no less than five hours. Get the 
> money up
> front. Make them beg. The "children" will work for nothing 
> because
> they think it will lead to bigger and better things. 
> Remind them that
> before long they will be you.
>   Any job that does not sell product or invent new product 
> to sell or
> produce the salable product is overhead. This includes 
> nearly all
> management.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>
     Well, the rationale is that when you are an employee 
you salary is only a part of what you get. Few jobs are 
without any perks at all but even when they are the employer 
must pay for insurance, equipment, etc. When  you are 
self-employed you must pay for all of this stuff yourself. 
Even if you do casual work as a "consultant" you will have 
expenses that may not be obvious. I was not kidding about 
the five times factor.  There are books written on this 
stuff, well to study them if you are serious about it.
     Your employer that hires the children to replace old 
hands is making a serious mistake but most of them base 
decisions like this on very short term bases, essentially 
reducing short term cost.  This kind of thinking has killed 
many businesses but try to tell that to someone who is 
trying to pay his stockholders an excessive amount and 
support a gambling habit and a couple of mistresses at the 
same time.  If you think I am making this up, I watched a 
business destroy itself because one of the three partners 
was supporting a very expensive girl friend (she worked in 
the place) and I think was embezzling.  I was in my twenties 
then and wound up working for Hewlett-Packard so it was no 
skin off my nose.


--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com